5 Aug 2013

Kanye West to perform at MTV Video Music Awards for record seventh time as Lady Gaga set to debut her new single at event

Kanye West and Lady Gaga have been confirmed to appear at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 25.MTV made the announcement this afternoon via their social networking sites Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Vine.The 36-year-old Kanye will make his
seventh onstage appearance at the annual awards when he sings Black
Skinhead at the ceremony, which will air live from the Barclays Center
in Brooklyn, New York.

Big night: Kanye West has been confirmed to
perform at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 25; the rapper is
pictured performing in New York in 2010

Seven times seems to be the charm for
new father Kanye, who has been celebrating both the June 15 birth of his
daughter North West with girlfriend Kim Kardashian and his recently
released album Yeezus.Lady
Gaga is slated to debut her new single at the star-studded event,
making this one of her first appearances since having hip surgery in
February. The 27-year-old
singer, who will release her new album ARTPOP on November 11, sang the
national anthem at New York's Gay Pride in June.

Girl power: Lady Gaga is also set to perform at
the annual awards show taking place at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New
York; the singer is likely to deliver a heart-pumping show as she did
here in Milan last year

Seven times the charm: This will make Kanye's
seventh onstage performance at the MTV Video Awards; he is seen here
entertaining the masses at a Los Angeles party in 2011

Lady Gaga has been avoiding the
public eye since calling off her Born This Way Ball world tour to
undergo surgery for a labral tear on her right hip earlier this year.The operation left her temporarily wheelchair-bound.The
blonde singer recently revealed that her new album will visit the pain
of her past and dramatically described the moment she handed the first
single over to her record label. In
a post on her new website, LittleMonsters.com, Gaga wrote: 'ARTPOP as
they pry the single from my bleeding fingers. its a scary thing to
revisit those things underneath, the pain in your past. but all I found
was raw passion. I thought I was destroyed inside. i'm just ready to
fight. start the music.'Other
performers will be announced at a later date but Justin Timberlake and
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis lead the nominations, as they are both up
for six awards.